Jack Thompson is going to love this - Boston University student and avid gamer threatens to "VT all over again"

[Phokus]

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195361

Cops pick up BU student over ?VT? Web threat
By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:30 PM EST

A part-time Boston University student who hosts a popular video game review show on an MTV Web site allegedly sent an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school, according to a Boston police report obtained by the Herald.

?(I)?m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It?s gonna be VT all over again,? 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

?Seriously I?m just that demented,? Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: ?killing people can change people?s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?

Rosenblum was picked up by Needham police officers at his parents? Wildwood Drive home at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after Boston police responded to a 911 call placed by a student at a private college for women in the city.

Needham police brought him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and BPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging Rosenblum with threatening to do bodily harm. The warrant is expected to be carried out by Newton police at the hospital, possibly as early as today, police sources said.

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report.

Rosenblum is enrolled in two classes at Boston University, a college spokesman said.

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Yesterday, Rosenblum?s rabbi, Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah in Needham, said he could not imagine the young man ?engaging in any sort of violence.?

Perkins said he also spoke to Rosenblum?s father. ?He said his son is getting the help he needs,? Perkins said.

Needham police Lt. John Kraemer categorized the threats as ?very serious? and said the investigation remains ongoing.

Boston police detectives assigned to the Family Justice Center obtained restraining orders prohibiting Rosenblum from contacting the woman or her friend, who is also named in the threatening e-mail.

Yesterday, Virginia Tech investigators probing the slaughter were questioning whether the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, was stalking women at the school.

*SIGH*

Also, reports of multiple bomb threats at schools across the country.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: Phokus
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195361

Cops pick up BU student over ?VT? Web threat
By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:30 PM EST

A part-time Boston University student who hosts a popular video game review show on an MTV Web site allegedly sent an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school, according to a Boston police report obtained by the Herald.

?(I)?m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It?s gonna be VT all over again,? 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

?Seriously I?m just that demented,? Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: ?killing people can change people?s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?

Rosenblum was picked up by Needham police officers at his parents? Wildwood Drive home at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after Boston police responded to a 911 call placed by a student at a private college for women in the city.

Needham police brought him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and BPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging Rosenblum with threatening to do bodily harm. The warrant is expected to be carried out by Newton police at the hospital, possibly as early as today, police sources said.

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report.

Rosenblum is enrolled in two classes at Boston University, a college spokesman said.

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Yesterday, Rosenblum?s rabbi, Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah in Needham, said he could not imagine the young man ?engaging in any sort of violence.?

Perkins said he also spoke to Rosenblum?s father. ?He said his son is getting the help he needs,? Perkins said.

Needham police Lt. John Kraemer categorized the threats as ?very serious? and said the investigation remains ongoing.

Boston police detectives assigned to the Family Justice Center obtained restraining orders prohibiting Rosenblum from contacting the woman or her friend, who is also named in the threatening e-mail.

Yesterday, Virginia Tech investigators probing the slaughter were questioning whether the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, was stalking women at the school.

*SIGH*

Also, reports of multiple bomb threats at schools across the country.

I suppose people are gonna come in there, saying there's the answer....it's the video games and MTV. :roll:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Phokus
"...(T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?[/b]

He should do everyone a favour and just implement that part of the plan.

 

[Ricochet]

It is not uncommon you'll get copycats after a heavily publicized suicide. Hopefully it doesn't become prevalent among murder suicide.

Too many nutcase out there.

**goes back living under a rock**

 

[halik]

5 ft 5 heh he's a walking stereotype

 

[glutenberg]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: Phokus
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195361

Cops pick up BU student over ?VT? Web threat
By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:30 PM EST

A part-time Boston University student who hosts a popular video game review show on an MTV Web site allegedly sent an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school, according to a Boston police report obtained by the Herald.

?(I)?m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It?s gonna be VT all over again,? 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

?Seriously I?m just that demented,? Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: ?killing people can change people?s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?

Rosenblum was picked up by Needham police officers at his parents? Wildwood Drive home at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after Boston police responded to a 911 call placed by a student at a private college for women in the city.

Needham police brought him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and BPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging Rosenblum with threatening to do bodily harm. The warrant is expected to be carried out by Newton police at the hospital, possibly as early as today, police sources said.

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report.

Rosenblum is enrolled in two classes at Boston University, a college spokesman said.

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Yesterday, Rosenblum?s rabbi, Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah in Needham, said he could not imagine the young man ?engaging in any sort of violence.?

Perkins said he also spoke to Rosenblum?s father. ?He said his son is getting the help he needs,? Perkins said.

Needham police Lt. John Kraemer categorized the threats as ?very serious? and said the investigation remains ongoing.

Boston police detectives assigned to the Family Justice Center obtained restraining orders prohibiting Rosenblum from contacting the woman or her friend, who is also named in the threatening e-mail.

Yesterday, Virginia Tech investigators probing the slaughter were questioning whether the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, was stalking women at the school.

*SIGH*

Also, reports of multiple bomb threats at schools across the country.

I suppose people are gonna come in there, saying there's the answer....it's the video games and MTV. :roll:

Nah, it's because he's 5 foot 5. Napoleon complex.

Edit: Beat by halik.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: Phokus
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195361

Cops pick up BU student over ?VT? Web threat
By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:30 PM EST

A part-time Boston University student who hosts a popular video game review show on an MTV Web site allegedly sent an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school, according to a Boston police report obtained by the Herald.

?(I)?m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It?s gonna be VT all over again,? 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

?Seriously I?m just that demented,? Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: ?killing people can change people?s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?

Rosenblum was picked up by Needham police officers at his parents? Wildwood Drive home at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after Boston police responded to a 911 call placed by a student at a private college for women in the city.

Needham police brought him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and BPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging Rosenblum with threatening to do bodily harm. The warrant is expected to be carried out by Newton police at the hospital, possibly as early as today, police sources said.

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report.

Rosenblum is enrolled in two classes at Boston University, a college spokesman said.

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Yesterday, Rosenblum?s rabbi, Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah in Needham, said he could not imagine the young man ?engaging in any sort of violence.?

Perkins said he also spoke to Rosenblum?s father. ?He said his son is getting the help he needs,? Perkins said.

Needham police Lt. John Kraemer categorized the threats as ?very serious? and said the investigation remains ongoing.

Boston police detectives assigned to the Family Justice Center obtained restraining orders prohibiting Rosenblum from contacting the woman or her friend, who is also named in the threatening e-mail.

Yesterday, Virginia Tech investigators probing the slaughter were questioning whether the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, was stalking women at the school.

*SIGH*

Also, reports of multiple bomb threats at schools across the country.

I suppose people are gonna come in there, saying there's the answer....it's the video games and MTV. :roll:

Well MTV I can understand. I mean, have you seen some of those shows like Sweet 16? it makes me want to go on a murderous rampage myself...

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: glutenberg

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: Phokus
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=195361

Cops pick up BU student over ?VT? Web threat
By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - Updated: 12:30 PM EST

A part-time Boston University student who hosts a popular video game review show on an MTV Web site allegedly sent an e-mail threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend and recreate the Virginia Tech bloodshed at her school, according to a Boston police report obtained by the Herald.

?(I)?m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It?s gonna be VT all over again,? 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.

?Seriously I?m just that demented,? Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: ?killing people can change people?s lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too.?

Rosenblum was picked up by Needham police officers at his parents? Wildwood Drive home at 3:15 a.m. yesterday after Boston police responded to a 911 call placed by a student at a private college for women in the city.

Needham police brought him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and BPD detectives obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging Rosenblum with threatening to do bodily harm. The warrant is expected to be carried out by Newton police at the hospital, possibly as early as today, police sources said.

The 19-year-old woman told cops she went on three dates with Rosenblum at the beginning of the school year, but had broken up with him. Rosenblum then allegedly harassed her, she said, according to the police report.

The victim began receiving the disturbing instant e-mail messages just before midnight Monday - the day of the Virginia Tech massacre - which she saved and printed, according to the report.

Rosenblum is enrolled in two classes at Boston University, a college spokesman said.

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Yesterday, Rosenblum?s rabbi, Carl Perkins of Temple Aliyah in Needham, said he could not imagine the young man ?engaging in any sort of violence.?

Perkins said he also spoke to Rosenblum?s father. ?He said his son is getting the help he needs,? Perkins said.

Needham police Lt. John Kraemer categorized the threats as ?very serious? and said the investigation remains ongoing.

Boston police detectives assigned to the Family Justice Center obtained restraining orders prohibiting Rosenblum from contacting the woman or her friend, who is also named in the threatening e-mail.

Yesterday, Virginia Tech investigators probing the slaughter were questioning whether the killer, Cho Seung-Hui, was stalking women at the school.

*SIGH*

Also, reports of multiple bomb threats at schools across the country.

I suppose people are gonna come in there, saying there's the answer....it's the video games and MTV. :roll:

Nah, it's because he's 5 foot 5. Napoleon complex.

Edit: Beat by halik.

Now now I'm 5 foot 5, don't be so mean.

 

[fLum0x]

rofl @ pont

 

[EKKC]

just watch. there will be a witch hunt for these kids similar to Cho across the country.
and they're going to hang anyone like this idiot who actually threaten another soul

 

[So]

Originally posted by: EKKC
just watch. there will be a witch hunt for these kids similar to Cho across the country.
and they're going to hang anyone like this idiot who actually threaten another soul

True. The sad part is, we're going to try to destroy these individuals, like a tribe of irate apes out for revenge, instead of evaluating the cases and making sure that they get the help and support to stop them from harming themselves and others.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum

Bubba's going to love him. Nice and small. Real purty-like.

- M4H

 

[glutenberg]

Originally posted by: amicold

Now now I'm 5 foot 5, don't be so mean.

I am an ass, sorry.

 

[BrownTown]

WOW, that guys gonna get in some serious sh|t. I mean everyone after the VT thing is like "I wish we recognized the signs", they gonna think he is totally for real (and maybe he is?), but hes gonna get some nice time with the mental health people for this.

About the bomb threats, I was thinking that some dumbnuts might try to pull those during exam week to get out of an exam, that would just be REALLY REALLY low to take advantage of peoples fears just to get out of an exam and people who are caught doing so should be punished severly.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
WOW, that guys gonna get in some serious sh|t. I mean everyone after the VT thing is like "I wish we recognized the signs", they gonna think he is totally for real (and maybe he is?), but hes gonna get some nice time with the mental health people for this.

About the bomb threats, I was thinking that some dumbnuts might try to pull those during exam week to get out of an exam, that would just be REALLY REALLY low to take advantage of peoples fears just to get out of an exam and people who are caught doing so should be punished severly.

Criminal statutes typically dictate severe penalties. For example, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S.A., provides for penalties of up to 20 years in prison, up to $50,000 fine, and restitution for the costs of the disruption. MGL c.269 s.14

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: EKKC
just watch. there will be a witch hunt for these kids similar to Cho across the country.
and they're going to hang anyone like this idiot who actually threaten another soul

True. The sad part is, we're going to try to destroy these individuals, like a tribe of irate apes out for revenge, instead of evaluating the cases and making sure that they get the help and support to stop them from harming themselves and others.

Of course. Remember what happened to all the HS goth kids after Columbine? Singled out by the student bodies and administrations and many were put through a lot of hell for it. At least they had, generally, a group of friends which they could vent to. These "loner" types (a term which is totally subjective) won't have any such outlet, and potentially no way to protect themselves.

Cho Seung-hui is no more indicative of "loner" types than Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were of goth kids.

 

[manowar821]

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[TreyRandom]

The 5-foot-5-inch Rosenblum is also the founder and host of GameLife Video Game Review Show that is streamed on MTV?s broadband video channel, Overdrive.

On his MySpace [website].com profile, Rosenblum wrote that he wanted to meet people ?associated with the video game industry, sports industry, and film industry.?

Guess that's the end of his career. Should have thought about the consequences before typing a bunch of crap and hitting SEND.